Name: Mr. Barnes of New York
Released: 1914
Cast: Maurice Costello, Mary Charleson, Darwin Karr, Naomi Childers, Adele De Garde

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

May 1914

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Vitagraph Co. of America

Distribution Company

Broadway Star Features Co.; General Film Co.; Special Features Dept.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel Mr. Barnes of New York by Archibald Clavering Gunter (New York, 1887) and his play of the same name (New York, 15 Oct 1888).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

6 reels

Synopsis

While visiting Musso Danella, a Corsican count, Mr. Barnes of New York meets Marina Paoli, a woman who has vowed revenge against an unknown English soldier who has slain her brother Antonio in a duel. Accompanied by Danella and her foster father Tomasso, Marina goes to Alexandria in search of the assassin and there meets Lieutenant Gerald Anstruther, a wounded English soldier, with whom she falls in love. Meanwhile, in London, Barnes courts Gerald's sister Enid. In Corsica, Marina weds Gerald, but after the ceremony Danella tells Marina that she has married her brother's murderer. Tomasso, bent on revenge, enters Marina's room and, assuming that Danella (secretly hiding behind a curtain) is Gerald, accidentally slays him. Finally, Barnes reveals that although Gerald's pistol was the weapon that caused Antonio's death, he had actually lent the gun to a fellow officer and did not participate in the duel himself.